Brendan I. Koerner Quotes
Skyjackers had a pretty abysmal success rate - once you commandeered a plane in American airspace, your odds of a happy ending were slim. After the epidemic ended in 1973, what folks tended to remember most about the skyjackers was their futility.
Brendan I. Koerner
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There is no 20-year period in American history when stocks lost money.
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My legs are nice, my lips are shapely, and my breasts are pretty. They popped up when I was 11 and they weren't small then. I was teased, but now those kids wish they had what I have!
Queen Latifah
Well, my type is obviously creative. Creative, with burning eyes and a pretty mouth.
Vanessa Paradis
I don't take on big things. What I do, pretty much, is make the big things small and the small things big.
Larry David
The way to lose weight is to eat less, so I ate a lot less for a month and lost a lot of weight pretty quickly.
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If you are attempting to study American history, and you don't understand the force of white supremacy, you fundamentally misunderstand America.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
For fiction, I'm not particularly nationalistic. I'm not like the Hugo Chavez of Latin American letters, you know? I want people to read good work.
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The American Dream is that any man or woman, despite of his or her background, can change their circumstances and rise as high as they are willing to work.
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Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.
Dale Carnegie
You are loved just for being who you are, just for existing. You don't have to do anything to earn it. Your shortcomings, your lack of self-esteem, physical perfection, or social and economic success - none of that matters. No one can take this love away from you, and it will always be here.
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Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.
W. C. Fields
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Tavi Gevinson
I'm gonna tell y'all what we tell the crowd every night when we play back in the States. We tell them to remember people sleeping in a sandstorm so that we can be free.
Zac Brown Band
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Alan Ball
The environment around you shapes who you are. How you handle an emergency or how you react when someone is rude to you, that's you.
Halsey
'Excuse me, I don't mean to be rude, are you an Indian?' And he was cool. 'Yes. Yes, I'm an Indian.' Still didn't believe him. I had to test him to be sure. This is fucked up, but I had a gum wrapper in my pocket, so I balled that shit up and I threw it on the floor. And a single tear came out of his eye. I said 'oh, shit!' I had so many questions.
Dave Chappelle
I was on the playground all night. I ain't never go to parties or nothing. I'd get out of school at 3 and be out there playing until one in the morning with one streetlight. For real.
Moses Malone
Skyjackers had a pretty abysmal success rate - once you commandeered a plane in American airspace, your odds of a happy ending were slim. After the epidemic ended in 1973, what folks tended to remember most about the skyjackers was their futility.
Brendan I. Koerner
